What Game Are You Playing Right Now?

Howard the Duck · 10-22-2011, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Lone Misfit

Did someone find their old video game systems underneath their box of vintage playboys?

nope, been playing a lot of retro arcade games programmed for the PS2

Guybrush · 10-22-2011, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Il Duce

i feel extremely lonely in this thread

no other 30-40 year olds playing games from the 80s and early 90s?

I'm not in my 30s just yet, but I am definetly a nostalgic gamer and have my XBMC Media Center PC set up with tons of old games (for C64, Amiga 500, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and more). Instead of getting discs with old games that you play on your PS2, have you checked out emulators? You can easily emulate games for most consoles on a regular computer. If you have a USB joypad and can connect your PC to a TV, then it can be a pretty nostalgic experience.

Howard the Duck · 10-22-2011, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by tore

I'm not in my 30s just yet, but I am definetly a nostalgic gamer and have my XBMC Media Center PC set up with tons of old games (for C64, Amiga 500, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and more). Instead of getting discs with old games that you play on your PS2, have you checked out emulators? You can easily emulate games for most consoles on a regular computer. If you have a USB joypad and can connect your PC to a TV, then it can be a pretty nostalgic experience.

yes i have tried emulators

they're not quite as close to the original arcade versions as the ones I have on my PS2 - well, the Taito, Capcom and Midway comps, anyway - because the programmers tried to stick as close to the original arcade graphics and sound as possible

the Sega ones look nothing like the arcade version - and there's still not a decent Space Harrier arcade version emulator on the PC, i've only found the Amiga one (which was only ok) and the Genesis version (Space Harrier 2), which I didn't quite like

Unknown Soldier · 10-22-2011, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Il Duce

i feel extremely lonely in this thread

no other 30-40 year olds playing games from the 80s and early 90s?

Do you ever remember any of these games, all adventure games. They were Commodore 64 and Amiga games.

Cruise for a Corpse
Operation Stealth
Colditz
Eureka

I`ve been reading what you and Tore have written above about playing old games. How does somebody find these games and what do they need to do/install on their PC or console to make them work?

Howard the Duck · 10-22-2011, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Do you ever remember any of these games, all adventure games. They were Commodore 64 and Amiga games.

Cruise for a Corpse
Operation Stealth
Colditz
Eureka

I`ve been reading what you and Tore have written above about playing old games. How does somebody find these games and what do they need to do/install on their PC or console to make them work?

well, I'm not really sure these days - i haven't used emulators for ages - took too much hardwork tracking down the codes for the games (some were also inaccurate), and too many emulators to choose from - you really have to ask tore about that

these days, I just buy programmed retro arcade games for the PS2, Rainbow Islands, The New Zealand Story and Bubble Bobble on my Taito Legends comp are as close to the coin-ops as I'll ever get, short of buying the whole machine myself

the Amiga versions of these games are also nowhere near the comp I got, it didn't have the "feel" of the arcade versions

when I think about it, i have more nostalgia being in the arcades than consoles or home computers - the arcades were like a second home to me as a child

Guybrush · 10-22-2011, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Do you ever remember any of these games, all adventure games. They were Commodore 64 and Amiga games.

Cruise for a Corpse
Operation Stealth
Colditz
Eureka

I`ve been reading what you and Tore have written above about playing old games. How does somebody find these games and what do they need to do/install on their PC or console to make them work?

I have playable roms of all of those titles. Setting up an emulator is easy. Figure out what emulator is the most popular (for example from emulator-zone.com) and get it. Then get the roms (games) you want, for example from a torrent. Then fire up the emulator and load the game. Il Duce is really making it seem harder than it is (imo). Emulation now is usually pretty much like opening a file in a program, for example opening a text file in notepad.

With a bit of work, you can set up a computer with a media center that you can run your games from. To do that, I've set up XBMC with Advanced Launcher on my own computer. Then I run it on the telly and control it from my couch with my XBOX controller.

Here's a selection screen for different systems :

And here's a random title when browsing Super Nintendo Games :

When using this, I don't run emulators manually. That's all going on in the background. I just choose the game I want and press a button.

Of course it's also a nice way to play your movies or music. I love it!

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Originally Posted by Il Duce

when I think about it, i have more nostalgia being in the arcades than consoles or home computers - the arcades were like a second home to me as a child

You'd like my arcade emulator setup then

Unknown Soldier · 10-22-2011, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by tore

I have playable roms of all of those titles. Setting up an emulator is easy. Figure out what emulator is the most popular (for example from emulator-zone.com) and get it. Then get the roms (games) you want, for example from a torrent. Then fire up the emulator and load the game. Il Duce is really making it seem harder than it is (imo). Emulation now is usually pretty much like opening a file in a program, for example opening a text file in notepad.

With a bit of work, you can set up a computer with a media center that you can run your games from. To do that, I've set up XBMC with Advanced Launcher on my own computer. Then I run it on the telly and control it from my couch with my XBOX controller.

Here's a selection screen for different systems :

And here's a random title when browsing Super Nintendo Games :

When using this, I don't run emulators manually. That's all going on in the background. I just choose the game I want and press a button.

Of course it's also a nice way to play your movies or music. I love it!

You'd like my arcade emulator setup then

Hey thanks this is really helpful and I`ll look into it. These games were games I really loved when I was younger and all of them I never managed to finish as they were all too hard (gamefaqs wasn`t around then)

RVCA · 10-22-2011, 03:47 PM

October 25th will be a great day. I am going to murder my Econ midterm and proceed straight home to play BF3 for hours on end.

Until then, I am doing very little in the way of gaming.

Freebase Dali · 10-22-2011, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by RVCA

October 25th will be a great day. I am going to murder my Econ midterm and proceed straight home to play BF3 for hours on end.

Until then, I am doing very little in the way of gaming.

Indeed it will be.
I've got BF3 downloaded, and am just waiting until Tues, 2AM, CDT.
I don't have class on Tuesday, so I'll get my sleeping out of the way after school on Monday. lol...

Oh, btw, I changed my Origin ID. New name is CheapViagra
Add me when Battlelog opens.
And at some point, we need to play the co-op together! I gotta get a headset though. Will do that soon.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra · 10-22-2011, 03:56 PM

Gorgeous game, fairly early in, looking to be way better than the disappointment Farenheit/Indigo Prophecy ended up being.

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RVCA （￣ー￣） Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 3,270	October 25th will be a great day. I am going to murder my Econ midterm and proceed straight home to play BF3 for hours on end. Until then, I am doing very little in the way of gaming.